Bale-tie



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BALE TIE.

No. 588,514. Patented Aug. 17,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WARREN, OF HOOKSTON, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO JOSEPH BAUM, OF MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 588,514, dated August17, 1897. Application filed February 1, 1897. Serial No. 621,586. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WARREN, of Hookston, in thecounty of Lauderdale and State of Mississippi, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bale-ties; and the object ofthe same is to provide an effective tie of the simplest and cheapestpossible form.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafterfully described and claimed, and illustrated by the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tie with theends of a bale-band secured thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view with theband removed. Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the tie isformed.

The complete tie is formed of a single piece or section of heavy wire orlight bar-iron bent to form the U-shaped body portion A, the same beingbent centrally, so that the extremities are of the same length. The endsare then turned at right angles to each other and to the longitudinalextent of the body portion, end B being projected upward, as

shown, and end O bent inward toward the base of upturned portion B, thuspartially closing the open end of the tie-body.

When applied to the looped ends of the bale-band, as shown in Fig. 1,the bent ends hold the band-loops from slipping off the tie, but in nosense does either bent end obstruct the passage of the band-loop overthe other bent end in applying the tie. The material used issufliciently stout to withstand the strain and any tendency tostraighten out without closing the open end of the tie by uniting thebody extremities with a trans verse member.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to provide ties adaptedto be arranged transverse the bale-band with one open end and toobstruct such opening, so that the band'ends and tie will not readilyseparate, and such form of tie is not herein broadly claimed; but I amnot aware that it is old to form a'simple and effective tie of the formherein described and claimed and possessing the peculiarly superiorqualities thereof.

. Having thus fully described my invention,

,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved bale-tie formed of a single blank of heavy wire, the sameconsisting of the elongated U -shaped loop closed at one end and adaptedto extend transverse the baleband and in the plane of the same with theband extremities looped around the parallel sides of the said U-shapedloop, extremities B and O of said loop being bent at right angles toeach other and to the longitudinal extent of the loop, extremity B beingdisposed 7o upward from the body of the tie to hold one extremity of theband from slipping from the tie, the other extremity lying in the planeof the tie and extending toward the base of extremity B and nearlyclosing the open end of the loop thereby effectually preventingaccidental disengagement of both band extremities, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WARREN.

, lVitnesses:

M. ROSENBAUM, J. BREOKMANN.

